fieldpiece
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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What a Lovely War too often becomes bogged down in its own dogged sincerity and finally becomes mired, like some promising but unwieldy fieldpiece, in the Marne's mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
A modern fieldpiece could easily throw a shell from Napoleon's headquarters over La Haie Sainte to Mont St. Jean, and far beyond into the forest.
From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by Ridpath, John Clark
Meanwhile, the fellow who was driving the mules attached to the fieldpiece, turned his head, and saw what was going on.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael
Mick Kennedy trained his one eye like a fieldpiece upon the locality suggested.
From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Lillibridge, Will
Sevier raised a hundred and fifty men and marched to take them back, carrying a light fieldpiece.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Roosevelt, Theodore
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